GTO Approved? Adam Hendrix Four-Bets the Flop at WSOP Main Event Final Table

Not all limped pots result in passive play or easy steal attempts. Sometimes, they see players raising and re-raising for stacks with millions on the line come postflop, as was the case in a hand at the final table of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

The hand in question took place between American pro Adam Hendrix and Serbia’s Luka Bojovic. With seven players remaining and blinds of 800K/1,600,000/1,600,000, Bojovic limped in the small blind with K♣9♠ and Hendrix checked his big blind checked his option with 6♦2♥.

The flop landed Q♥J♠6♣ and Bojovic led out for 1,800,000. Hendrix raised to 5,600,000, and Bojovic fired back with a 3-bet to 10,000,000. Hendrix wasn’t done, he 4-bet to 15,500,000. After a long tank, Bojovic folded. Hendrix proudly tabled his hand and celebrated, sending his rail into a frenzy.

Let’s break down the hand and see what optimal play looks like with the help of GTO Wizard.

Pre-Flop Analysis

• Luka Bojovic (HJ): 57,100,000 (36bb)
• Adam Hendrix (BB): 51,300,000 (32bb)

Bojovic completes from the SB with K♣9♠. This is GTO Approved.

As you can see above, the solver suggests that calling from the SB is the highest-frequency play with our continuing range. K9o calls 86.5% of the time. Even though the SB covers the BB here, with stacks being fairly similar and a shorter stack still at the table, the solver only recommends a polarized raising strategy in this spot.

Hendrix checks 6♦2♥ in the BB. GTO Approved.

As you can see, the BB raises at a higher frequency. Once again, the solver recommends a polarized strategy, with hands like 62o mixing evenly between raise and check. If Hendrix believed Bojovic might overfold to a raise, then raising could be the higher-EV option, but in this case, the check is solver-approved.

Post-flop Analysis

Bojovic bets 1,800,000. GTO Approved.

The solver recommends checking this board more often than betting with your overall range, but as shown above, the EV for K9o is identical whether you check or bet. If Bojovic believed Hendrix wouldn’t call or raise frequently enough against c-bets, then betting would become the higher-EV play with this hand. However, as we saw, that was definitely not the case against Hendrix.

Hendrix raises to 5,600,000. GTO Approved.

Against the c-bet, the solver recommends raising just 2.9% of the time in this spot. That’s because the SB holds the range advantage on this flop (See below), with a higher percentage of both the strongest hands and good made hands compared to the BB.

As you can see above, the EV comparison between calling and raising with 62o is very close. While the solver does include a small amount of raising with 62o, it generally prefers using 63o and 64o instead.

So, on paper, Hendrix’s play may look wild, but the solver does approve it at a low frequency. If we were to nodelock Bojovic for c-betting more often on this flop, the solver would almost certainly recommend raising a much wider range from the BB. This was likely Hendrix’s thinking behind the raise.

Bojovic 3-bets to 10,000,000. GTO Approved.

Surprisingly, the solver does recommend raising 10.1% of hands in this spot. However, as you can see, it still prefers calling at a higher frequency with K9o compared to raising. That said, a raise is used at low frequency, so this play is far from a punt. If we were to nodelock Hendrix to raise more often (as he did in game), the solver would almost certainly increase the overall raising frequency here.

Hendrix 4-bets to 15,500,000. GTO Approved.

While the solver generally recommends folding 6♦2♥ in this spot, it shows that 4-betting other 62o combos is actually the highest EV play. As shown above, the solver suggests raising 16.1% of the BB range here, favoring 63o and 64o, but confirming that Hendrix’s play with 62o was not a punt or a wild bluff. Overall, this was very close to the correct GTO decision. A well-played move by him.

Bojovic folds K♣9♠ to the 4-bet. GTO Disapproved.

The only mistake in the hand: K9o should never fold here. While it might feel like a crazy spot to call, K9o versus this min 4-bet is a profitable call. Bojovic likely folded thinking Hendrix would never bluff after the 3-bet, which is understandable. But as we saw in-game, Hendrix bluffs even wider than

GTO, making this K9o an even clearer call. Though, a very hard play to make in practice, given it’s the WSOP Main Event final table.

What an insane hand at this year’s WSOP Main Event final table. Most players would shy away from big pots with weak holdings, but these two sickos certainly did not. On the surface, it may have looked like they were trying to exploit each other and make a show for the cameras. But they actually played this hand remarkably close to GTO, an impressive feat, especially in a 4-bet pot on the flop. Hats off to both players, and congrats on making it to the WSOP Main Event final table.

Check out the hand for yourself on the PokerGO YouTube channel around the 9:30 mark.

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Connor Richards is a Senior Editor U.S. for PokerNews and host of the Life Outside Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for three Global Poker Awards for his writing.